Colorado GOP deletes #nevertrump tweet, pledges investigation


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Moments after announcing that Ted Cruz had swept all 34 delegate slots at the Colorado GOP convention Saturday, the state party tweeted: “We did it. #NeverTrump.”

Within minutes, the tweet had been deleted.

Steve House, the Colorado GOP chairman, insisted his staff had nothing to do with the tweet and is now investigating.

“There’s no way we tweeted that,” House said, although he acknowledged that the state party was responsible for deleting it.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/colorado-gop-nevertrump-tweet-221766

NO PRIMARY, NO CAUCUS: CRUZ GETS ALL COLORADO DELEGATES


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Within minutes, the tweet had been deleted.

 Steve House, the Colorado GOP chairman, insisted his staff had nothing to do with the tweet and is now investigating.

 

“There’s no way we tweeted that,” House said, although he acknowledged that the state party was responsible for deleting it.

Even though it only existed in the ether of cyberspace for a few minutes, the optics of such a tweet coming from the neutral arbiter of Saturday’s delegate selection process amidst a hard-fought trench war between Cruz and Donald Trump to secure the Republican presidential nomination rankled a number of Colorado Republicans.

Several local GOP operatives were quick to suggest that the tweet, which was quickly deleted, was the work of the two young Republican operatives at D/CO, a newly formed Republican consulting firm that caters on outreach to Millennials. Caleb Bonham and Kyle Forti, who formed D/CO in December, just took over a number of clients from another local firm, Avinova, which used to assist the Colorado GOP with social media.

http://www.infowars.com/no-primary-no-caucus-cruz-gets-all-colorado-delegates/